Abstract
Free-response Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV) tests were conducted on a 6.233 m long cylinder with a diameter of 0.325 m. The cylinder was allowed to vibrate in the cross-flow direction and towed at Reynolds numbers varying from 200,000 to 700,000. Rather than conducting hundreds of individual tests at discrete values of reduced velocity, the free-response was measured while continuously varying the towing speed in a manner that ensures quasi-steady response. These ‘ramp-tests’ not only yielded response data corresponding to continuously varying reduced velocity, but also yielded observations of the hysteresis effects associated with increasing or decreasing flow speed. The results from the carefully conducted ‘ramp-tests’ are compared with steady towing speed results to confirm their validity. The cylinder’s free-response was controlled by systematically varying the external electro-mechanical damping. Lift and added mass coefficients at supercritical Reynolds numbers were extracted using the known relationships between cylinder response and hydrodynamic loading. Contour plots of lift and added mass coefficients are presented as a function of dimensionless response amplitude and reduced velocity. Stationary cylinder drag coefficients were also efficiently acquired using the ramp testing technique. These results are presented and compared with the VIV amplified drag coefficients.
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